Hans Christian Andersen: Classic Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

New York: Barnes & Noble Inc, 2015. New. Bonded leather-bound Barnes & Noble Collectible Edition. In original publisher's shrinkwrap. The unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in elegant binding, distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. Gilt to the page edges is bright, unmarried, and Fine. The book is abundantly illustrated with more than 100 drawings and color plates by Dugald Stewart Walker and Hans Tegner, two of Andersen's best-known illustrators. 712 pages. Purchased new at Barnes & Noble. Publisher images included in the photo display.

One hundred of Andersen's incomparable fairy tales and stories, among them Thumbelina,The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the Pea, The Red Shoes, The Wild Swans, and his fantasy masterpiece, The Snow-Queen.